{"product_id":"2439","title":"The Chess Player's Chronicle Volume I","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eHoward Staunton (1810-1874) editor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYear: \u003c\/b\u003e1840\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eR Hastings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlace: \u003c\/b\u003eLondon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003exviii+416 pages with frontispiece, diagrams and index. Octavo (8 3\/4\" x 5 3\/4\") bound in period cloth with blind stamped covers and gilt decoration and lettering to spine. Title stamped in red and green dated 1841, but published in 1840. Volume I. (Betts: 7-1) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Chess Player's Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, founded by Howard Staunton and extant from 1841-56 and 1856-62, was the world's first successful English-language magazine devoted exclusively to chess. Various unrelated but identically or similarly named publications were published until 1902. The earliest chess magazine in any language was the French \u003ci\u003eLe Palamede\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1836-39 and 1842-47. In 1837 George Walker introduced an English-language magazine, the \u003ci\u003ePhilidorian\u003c\/i\u003e, that was devoted to \"chess and other scientific games\". Only six issues of it were published, and it \"expired in May, 1838\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Chess Player's Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e became the first successful English-language chess magazine. In 1840 or 1841 Staunton bought the fortnightly magazine \u003ci\u003eThe British Miscellany and Chess Player's Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1841 it became \u003ci\u003eThe Chess Player's Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1843, the \u003ci\u003eChess Player's Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e became a shilling monthly magazine. Staunton \"made the inclusion of a large number of games by himself and other leading players of the day a special feature\" of the magazine. He also used the magazine as a forum for attacking others. Staunton was the owner and editor of the magazine until the early 1850s, when he sold it to R.B. Brien. O'Brien became editor of the magazine, but was unable to continue its success and discontinued it in 1856 because of financial losses and his own illness. It reappeared in 1859 under the editorship of Ignatz Kolisch, Zytogorski, and Josef Kling, but survived only until July 1862. Thereafter, a number of magazines appeared with the same or similar name (such as \u003ci\u003eChess Players' Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e) appeared. Arthur Skipworth, assisted by William Wayte and Charles Ranken, wrote The \u003ci\u003eChess Players' Quarterly Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, which was published in York from February 1868 to December 1871. Skipworth, who had left Bilsdale for Tetford Rectory, Horncastle, and John Wisker became the editors of the new \u003ci\u003eThe Chess Players' Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e in February 1872. Johann Lowenthal began writing for it in 1873. The magazine ran until 1875. In January 1876, it was succeeded by The Chess Player's Chronicle, whose editor-in-chief was J. Jenkin of Helensburgh. Its editorial staff consisted of Jenkin, Skipworth, Ranken, Wayte, and Andrew Hunter of Glasgow. Billed as a \"monthly record of provincial chess\", it was published at Glasgow, costing sixpence. Its short run under Jenkin's editorship was marked by xenophobia. The February issue stated that the West End Club had \"cleared away the disturbing foreign element which whilom infected the Divan\" and referring to Wilhelm Steinitz as \"the hot-headed little Austrian\". Its third and last issue was published in March. The magazine reappeared in January 1877. It was now under Ranken's editorship, assisted by J. Crum, G. B. Fraser, Skipworth, and Wayte. The first issue apologized for \"certain offensive statements and insinuations, seriously affecting the honor of some eminent players\", and explained that some members of the present editorial staff had only contributed games and other inoffensive material to it in 1875. Ranken continued to edit the magazine until September 1880. In 1881, the title was enlarged to \u003ci\u003eThe Chess Player's Chronicle, and Journal of Indoor and Outdoor Sports\u003c\/i\u003e, and \"the magazine's importance in the chess world was no longer the same\". None of these magazines compared in quality with what Staunton had achieved, and the success of the \u003ci\u003eBritish Chess Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, by the turn of the century a superb magazine, put an end to the title in 1902.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCorners bumped, earlier owner's stamp to title, some pencil notations through out, some occasional foxing to preliminary and title pages, recased with new end papers, old newspaper chess problem laid on front paste down else a very good copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSOLD 2017\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Chess Collector","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39501016826056,"sku":"C0670","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9899\/6168\/products\/tcc2439tcc_2nd.jpg?v=1618131875","url":"https:\/\/chesscollectorshop.com\/products\/2439","provider":"The Chess Collector","version":"1.0","type":"link"}